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Virgin Galactic offers a peek inside SpaceShipTwo in VR, making its case in the space tourism race

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Virgin Galactic went so far as to lend out Oculus Quest headsets to journalists, including yours truly, so we could get an advance peek at a computer-generated interior with an eye-filling view of Earth and space out the window. If only we could all afford to sample the suborbital space smorgasbord!

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 27, 2020

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Amazon jumps into virtual tourism, offering live one-on-one experiences around the world. Mike Angiulo worked at Microsoft for 25 years as an engineering manager and vice president for products including Windows PCs, Microsoft Outlook, Xbox, Surface, and cloud and artificial intelligence technologies. … Read More.

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9 questions about the missing Titanic submersible, answered

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The teardrop-shaped vessel is 22 feet long, can carry five people, and is equipped with one, small porthole window on the front of the vessel, where there is also a small toilet. The company has also become known for leading deep sea tourism trips. How dangerous is deep sea tourism?

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9 questions about the missing Titanic submersible, answered

Vox

The teardrop-shaped vessel was 22 feet long, could carry five people, and was equipped with one small porthole window on the front of the vessel, where there was also a small toilet. The company has also become known for leading deep-sea tourism trips. How dangerous is deep sea tourism?

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Weather forces a day’s delay in William Shatner’s Blue Origin suborbital space trip

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Blue Origin’s flight plan calls for the foursome to be launched beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) space boundary to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and look out at the curving Earth through the New Shepard crew capsule’s picture windows. “What I don’t want to see is somebody else out there looking at me.”

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Billionaire commander and future space crewmates bond during Mount Rainier trek

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Resilience will be fitted with a giant cupola window to maximize the view. Instead, Isaacman will serve as the commander of a free-flying mission that could provide further insights into the effects of spaceflight on non-professionals — and provide great pictures for the crew and folks watching at home.

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship aces uncrewed rehearsal for crewed flight to space

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There’s even a defogging system for the capsule’s nearly floor-to-ceiling windows. This spaceship is equipped with acoustic and temperature control equipment, as well as display screens, a safety alert system, speakers and in-seat microphones with push-to-talk buttons.